Category: Interactive Fiction
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Impossible Stairs
Impossible Stairs is a medium-sized puzzlefest crafted by Mathbrush. This game is an authorized sequel to Impossible Bottle, a story that tied for first place in the 2020 IF Comp. In this game, a series of puzzles bring your family together for a meal by the end of it. It’s a light-hearted adventure and not…
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You Won’t Get Her Back
You Won’t Get Her Back is a text game by Andrew Schultz. Or maybe a text puzzle. He has written a lot of games over the years and even gamified IF with Big Nose on the Big Pyramid. Here he’s implemented a version of chess, the full board, not like his previous game, Fourbyfourian Quarryin’,…
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Alchemist’s Gold
Alchemist Gold is a text adventure written by Garry Francis. It was written in PunyInform and is only 82kb. That’s tiny. Really tiny. My first game was 512kb by the time it was done. I wasn’t using a stripped-down version of the library, but you can only put in so much with a game this…
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Midnight at Al’s Self Storage, Truck Rentals, and Discount Psychic Readings
For the start of ParserComp 2022, I played Midnight at Al’s Self Storage, Truck Rentals, and Discount Psychic Readings by Thomas Insel. I had pretty high hopes for it, and even though it’s a short game, I feel it missed an opportunity. You play as an employee at an all-night self-storage. Your boss, Joe, hands…
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The Bright Blue Ball
The Bright Blue Ball by Clary C might be the last game I review for Spring Thing 2022. It’s getting towards the end of the competition, and I know who I’m voting for. But I wanted to give a few more games a fair shake. In this one, you play as a dog, looking for…
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Tours Roust Torus
It’s getting towards the end of Spring Thing, but I’d like to get a few more reviews in. The latest game I played was Tours Roust Torus by Andrew Schultz – an anagram game that’s the final installment in the Stale Tales Slate. Going into it, I expected a game where I could win it…
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Hinterlands: Marooned!
In this year’s Spring Thing, the next game I played was Hinterlands: Marooned! It turns out that this is a one-move game, but I had no idea going into it. The game has you stranded on a very small island, standing next to a Q’udzlth. And almost everything you do will kill you. There are…
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Fairest
The next game I played in Spring Thing 2022 was Fairest. This is the latest game from Amanda Walker, an author that took 4th place in last year’s competition. This game came with a walkthrough, the reason I played it next, but it’s the only one in the competition to have one. In this game,…
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The Legend of Horse Girl
The second game I played for Spring Thing 2022 was The Legend of Horse Girl by Bitter Karella. I like the artwork, and I thought the setting was neat, but I didn’t know there was no walkthrough when I started. The game starts off in the plaza of Santa Diablo, Texas. A small western town…
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Bigfoot Bluff
I started the 2022 Spring Thing Festival with Bigfoot Bluff by P.B. Parjeter. It looked like a light-hearted, easy to play through game, but I got stuck, and without a walkthrough, I couldn’t finish it. You start the game as Bigfoot Jr. trying to photograph the cryptid creatures in the park. The game comes with…
Grue Eater 